FOLLOWING Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC’s request for a postponement of the elections from January to April 2011, the National Assembly, yesterday, summoned the INEC Chairman, Professor Attahiru Jega and the Attorney-General of the Federation, Mr. Mohammed Adoke to a meeting next Monday, even as more Nigerians had declared their support for the postponement.

The Jonathan declaration was easily the largest crowd ever pulled to the nation’s foremost political arena. By most newspaper accounts, 23 governors attended. The entire National Working Committee (NWC), most members of the Board of Trustees (BOT) and the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) were fully mobilised.

The Bayelsa State chapter of the Civil Liberties Organisation, CLO, has alleged that some men of the Bayelsa Police Command and soldiers of the Joint Task Force, JTF, have been engaging in large scale extortion from commercial motorists and motorcycle operators in the state.

The VC hoped that at the end of the conference, “practical and implementable recommendations would be made that would serve as position paper for developing countries at the Mexico 2010 UN-Global Summit on climate change.”

THE police in Abraka, Delta State, yesterday, summoned the national president of the Ighele r’ Urhobo ( youth wing) of the Urhobo Progress Union, UPU, Engineer Avwerosuoghene Okoro, over Monday’s fracas in the community.

NATIONAL leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday, suspended all Congresses and Primaries earlier scheduled to commence this week till further notice.

FORMER Deputy Governor of Edo State and chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Reverend Peter Obadan, has predicted doom for his party, if the leaders fail to cede the 2012 governorship ticket to the Edo North Senatorial district.

In 1945, the world had just emerged from World War II, totally bruised. The German Reich was virtually bankrupt following the heavy expenses accruing from the war. What should a country do if it was broke?

“We want to thank God that our medical and education works in Nigeria today are second to none. We set the pace for others to follow. Since government took over schools what have they achieved? Standard of education is going down, immorality has become widespread today.

WITH all the noise about the Federal Government’s posture on corruption, there is no doubt that some forms of corruptions are tolerable while others have to be dealt with decisively. Those who claim that the fight against corruption is selective would have a point if we take football as an example.